Math is a sometimes fascinating, sometimes terrifying subject. Today, we’re going for the former by visualizing pi in a cool new way. In 2011, mathematicians calculated pi out to an astounding, seemingly unnecessary 10 trillion decimal places. To helpfully illustrate just how many numbers that amounts to, there is now a color-coded graphic that will boggle the mind.

In this image, each digit has a color associated with it, and each pixel represents one number. It may look like static, but that’s what perhaps the most well-known irrational number looks like. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference and its diameter. Since pi’s decimals repeat forever, it has become a bit of a challenge to see who can calculate the most digits.

The 10 trillion digit calculation, done by Shegeru Kondo, took 371 days and the data ate up 44TB of hard drive space during computation. The final product was “just” 7.6TB in size, though. Another way to think about it; if you were to read out the digits of pi, it would take 158,000 years for you to get to the 10 trillionth digit.

There’s really no practical purpose in knowing this many digits of pi. You only need 39 digits past the decimal to generate a circle the size of the entire universe that is accurate to within the diameter of a proton. 10 trillion? Now you’re just showing off

You can check out the interactive version of the image to explore the seeming randomness of it all. You can hover your mouse to see the number block you’re hovering over, and the search box lets you find any numerical string in the 4 million digits. This might not be practical real world knowledge to you, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.